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To fetch. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ade fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle. [They] bound him with fetters of brass. Judg. xvi. 21.

Seeming as if fettered, as the feet pf certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.

One who fetters. Landor.

Free from fetters. Marston.

To bind in fetters; to enchain. "Enfettered to her love." Shak.

A courier who conveys messages to another courier; a military courier sent from one part of an army to another.

An estafet. [R.] arlyle.

To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind.

An ornament or a fetter for the ankle; an ankle ring.

led, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or confined; a fetter. Every one's bands were loosed. Acis xvi 26.

To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.

r reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning. He saw a turnkey in a trice Fetter a troublesome blade. Coleridge.

An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter. [Obs.] Away with him to prison! lay bolts enough upon him. Shak.

Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.

That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit. Driven down To chains of darkness and the undying worm. Milton.

Having no chain; not restrained or fettered. "The chainless mind." Byron.

Hanging down like gyves or fetters. [Poetic & Rare] Shak.

r state of being fond; foolishness. [Obs.] Fondness it were for any, being free, To covet fetters, though they golden be. Spenser.

To fit with fetters. [Cant] Johnson.